We could smell the proverb

 We could smell the stench from rotten leaves and timber from 500 feet in a helicopter.

 As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. / The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. / So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
  Homer J. Simpson

 I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
  Margaret Thatcher

 You could tell which houses had the dead bodies in them because you could smell the stench before you got out of the car.

 The smell is just not very good. Some smell of rotting flesh, some of nuts, some of thyme leaves.

 Dead grass doesn't smell great. There was a stench in here [Thursday].

 Miles before we got there, you could smell the stench of all this rotting from the flood ... even from up in the air, ... I would be surprised if people would be able to move back very soon, just from the level of destruction.

 The pictures or the television can't show the stench, the smell of urine and water mixed on the floors, the feces. It was unimaginably horrible.

 I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Jag gillar hur mina egna fötter luktar. Jag älskar att lukta i mina sneakers när jag tar av dem.
  Christina Ricci

 One claimant has written to me describing it. They ate nothing. The smell was indescribable. The stench was indescribable. Some drank their own urine because they were in effect dying of thirst.

 You have to brace yourself for the smell. It is a really bad stench. It is disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

 Despite the best efforts of the news media, it's impossible to sense the confusion, observe the destruction, smell the stench, hear the cries, dry the tears, clothe the threadbare, as well as hug and feed the hurting and hungry unless you're here,

 Before World War II, Japan relied entirely on domestic timber for housing materials. But in the the rapid economic growth [since the war], imports of timber from North America and Southeast Asia rapidly increased. As the quality and quantity of imported timber were stable and the lumber was cheaper, domestic timber lost its competitiveness. Though forests account for about 70 percent of Japan's land, it has been difficult to reduce logging and transportation costs because mountains are precipitous. Sluggish sales of domestic timber are damaging forests.

 Timber drove the train and everyone else rode along with it. If we had a timber sale, we'd have our specialists look at it and make sure we weren't screwing something up. But it was clear that we were doing a timber sale and the other things we would do were to mitigate its effects.

 Widowed women are getting letters out of the blue asking to buy their timber, so we're trying to do women in forestry workshops. You need to sell your timber like you would your house or car. Everyone knows the value of those, but landowners often don't know the value of their timber.


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